New President of Alumni Association
UTAH STATE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION RECEIVES NEW PRESIDENCY
The Utah State University Alumni Association installs and welcomes new president Dennis Sessions and vice-president elect Randy Watts on July 1, 2001.
Sessions replaces Cache Valley resident Carl Lundahl after serving as vice-president elect for the past two years. He resides in Idaho Falls, Idaho, and is the owner of the Teton Ace Hardware store in Driggs, Idaho. Sessions graduated from Utah State in 1970 with a bachelor’s in business administration after which he earned his master’s in the same field in 1971. He is a member of the Utah State University Board of Trustees.
Watts will serve as vice-president elect for two years before serving a two-year term as president of the alumni association beginning in 2003. Watts, a Cache Valley resident, attended Utah State in 1974. He served in the United States Air Force before becoming a general contractor. Today, Watts works with his father, Cal, at Cache Valley Builders Supply where he has worked for 23 years and is the vice president over personnel and accounts receivable. He currently serves as buildings and grounds director on the Sunshine Terrace Foundation Board, as a member of the Zion’s Bank advisory board and on the review board for the City of Logan. A member of the Old Main Society, Randy also belongs to the Sunshine Terrace Honor Society and is a nationally numbered ski patrolmen.
“We are so excited to have Randy join us here in the Alumni Association,” said Carlos Smith, director of the association. “He is a prominent businessman in the valley and brings an expertise and involvement in the community that will help our organization.”
Sessions looks forward to the coming years and has many plans for the future of the organization.
“We need more involvement from our alumni,” says Sessions. “We have many alumni with fond memories of Utah State, but they aren’t getting involved in the association.”
His goal is to change that attitude and with chapters located in each of Utah’s 29 counties, eight other states, including Idaho, and four other countries, Sessions believes there are plenty of opportunities for people to get involved.
For more information about the new presidency or the Utah State Alumni Association in general, please call the association at 435-797-2055 or toll free at 800-291-ALUM (2586).